Sammy Davis

“Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.”

“Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.”

“During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.”

“I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.”

“I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.”

“My home has always been show business.”

“When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.”

“The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.”

“I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.”

“I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.”

“May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.”

“I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.”

“There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.”

“Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.”

“I don't have many easy songs.”

“To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.”

“I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.”

“Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.”

“If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.”

“Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?”